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Lord, how I have heated my imagination with this metaphor! though by the bye the R should have gone first But in short 'tis of such a nature, as my father once told my uncle Toby upon the close of a long dissertation upon the subject 'You can scarce, said he, 'combine two ideas together upon it, brother Toby, without an hypallage' What's that? cried my uncle Toby.
The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another. The grammarians call it "metonymia," because names are transferred. When many metaphors succeed one another uninterruptedly the sort of oration becomes entirely changed.
The Rhetoricians call this an Hypallage, because one word is substituted for another: but the Grammarians call it a Metonymy, because the words are shifted and interchanged.
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